John Jay Chapman
John Jay Chapman
John Jay Chapmanwas an American author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth2 March 1862
CountryUnited States of America
happiness character emotion
Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.
boredom done leaving-me
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
religious long political
The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.
men discovery goes-on
When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.
secret enthusiasm taste
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
people society problem
There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.
society new-testament criticize
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
business men worst-enemy
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.
new-york powerful past
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
party magic curiosity
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.
life teacher teaching
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
character long half
It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
years political world
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
love dog philosophy
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.